Western Keres
E486073
Western Keres is a Keresan Puebloan language spoken by the Keres people of western New Mexico.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Western Keres canonical | 4 |
| Western Keresan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5010826 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Western Keres Context triple: [Puebloan languages, includes, Western Keres]
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A.
Southern Numic
Southern Numic is a branch of the Numic group of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken in parts of the southwestern United States.
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B.
Pacific Coast Athabaskan
Pacific Coast Athabaskan refers to a group of Athabaskan (Dene) languages traditionally spoken along the Pacific coast of northwestern California and southwestern Oregon.
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C.
Central Numic
Central Numic is a branch of the Numic subgroup of Uto-Aztecan languages, comprising several closely related Indigenous languages spoken in parts of the western United States.
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D.
Southern Pomo
Southern Pomo is a Native American people indigenous to what is now Northern California, traditionally inhabiting areas around the Russian River and nearby coastal regions.
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E.
Southern Wintun
Southern Wintun are a Native American people of central California, traditionally inhabiting parts of the Sacramento Valley and speaking a Wintuan language.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Western Keres Target entity description: Western Keres is a Keresan Puebloan language spoken by the Keres people of western New Mexico.
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A.
Southern Numic
Southern Numic is a branch of the Numic group of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken in parts of the southwestern United States.
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B.
Pacific Coast Athabaskan
Pacific Coast Athabaskan refers to a group of Athabaskan (Dene) languages traditionally spoken along the Pacific coast of northwestern California and southwestern Oregon.
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C.
Central Numic
Central Numic is a branch of the Numic subgroup of Uto-Aztecan languages, comprising several closely related Indigenous languages spoken in parts of the western United States.
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D.
Southern Pomo
Southern Pomo is a Native American people indigenous to what is now Northern California, traditionally inhabiting areas around the Russian River and nearby coastal regions.
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E.
Southern Wintun
Southern Wintun are a Native American people of central California, traditionally inhabiting parts of the Sacramento Valley and speaking a Wintuan language.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Keresan language
ⓘ
Puebloan language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| ethnicity | Keres Pueblo people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| family | Keresan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Western Keresan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Western Keresan language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Acoma Keres
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cochiti Keres NERFINISHED ⓘ Laguna Keres NERFINISHED ⓘ Santa Ana Keres NERFINISHED ⓘ Santo Domingo Keres NERFINISHED ⓘ Zia Keres NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfSpeakers | several thousand (approximate) ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
glottalized consonants ⓘ |
| hasTypologicalFeature |
postpositions rather than prepositions
ⓘ
rich verb morphology ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| isDistinctFrom | Eastern Keres NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isEndangered | true ⓘ |
| isNot |
Indo-European language
ⓘ
Uto-Aztecan language ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | kjq ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Pueblo languages ⓘ |
| isSpokenIn | New Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Keresan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageStatus | threatened ⓘ |
| region | western New Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Keres people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Keres language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | language revitalization efforts ⓘ |
| usedFor |
daily communication in some Keres communities
ⓘ
oral storytelling ⓘ traditional ceremonies ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Acoma Pueblo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cochiti Pueblo NERFINISHED ⓘ Laguna Pueblo NERFINISHED ⓘ Santa Ana Pueblo NERFINISHED ⓘ Santo Domingo Pueblo NERFINISHED ⓘ Zia Pueblo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Western Keres Description of subject: Western Keres is a Keresan Puebloan language spoken by the Keres people of western New Mexico.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Western Keresan